Focus on fermented foods at Valorial’Connection

Published: Feb 1, 2024 by FME Lab

The first Valorial’Connection event of the year was held at Lamballe this 1st February. It gathered more than 50 academic and AgriFood industry partners on site and as many online. Stéphane was invited to give a talk¹ for presenting the EU DOMINO project and to talk, more specifically, on the role of data sciences in fermented foods area.

There was a lot a very animated discussions on the subject and also on precision fermentation. The day was efficiently and nicely concluded by a visit of BIOREA company producing microalgaes for various food, feed and other markets.

Chaillou S. The role of fermented food microbiota diversity on health: what contributions from data sciences?. https://hal.science/hal-04446192 ↩

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